#Bestof2022: 1/2: The limits of #ESG investing; & What is to be done? Terry Anderson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow @HooverInst
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
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#Bestof2022: 1/2: The limits of #ESG investing; & What is to be done? Terry Anderson, Hoover Institution Senior Fellow @HooverInst
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| 0:34.7 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:38.1 | ESG, ESG investing, dominating the conversation in the financial world. |
| 0:44.4 | Because right now the concern is, are we doing enough to prevent climate change, disastrous climate |
| 0:53.0 | change is the challenge. Recently, an event called a moral money summit in London |
| 1:01.6 | featured a speaker, Stuart Kirk of HSBC Asset Management. |
| 1:06.3 | He's the head or was the head of responsible investing. |
| 1:09.6 | Mr. Kirk has the sense of humor that was not appreciated at this conference. |
| 1:14.2 | One remark and it's hard to believe that somebody wouldn't regard this as funny. |
| 1:19.1 | There's always some nut job telling me about the end of the world. |
| 1:23.5 | For that, Mr. Kirk was chastised and relieved of his post and is now not heard from regularly. |
| 1:31.3 | But it's just a few weeks and so what he will do is make a return and explain to us what it is to be |
| 1:38.3 | head of responsible investing at a major bank. However, I have Terry Anderson of the Hoover |
| 1:44.6 | Institution to turn to because Terry anticipated all this in a book that he published recently |
| 1:50.2 | and adapt and be adept in the in here are essays by chiefly economists but also commentators on such |
| 1:58.1 | abstract things as fire insurance for wildfires in California. Talking about the planet we have, |
| 2:05.3 | not the planet we want to have and the planet we have has limits. Those limits are uncomfortable |
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